Hurt, the sheriff's deputy who Montgomery killed, was married and had three children. In previous parole hearings Montgomery has struggled to understand what is being said. The elderly Montgomery is extremely hard of hearing, making Zoom calls difficult, Nordyke said. He's worked for years at the prison's silk screen shop where one of his lawyers during the last parole board hearing said he'd been named employee of the month more times that she could count.ĭuring the last year the coronavirus has limited Montgomery's contact with the outside world, his lawyer Keith Nordyke said. Some of the programs like the boxing club were ones that Montgomery himself helped start, say supporters. Take some time to relax and enjoy the whimsical wonder of Connecticut's fall foliage with this visual experience of Fairfield County. There was little in the way of rehabilitative programs, especially not for prisoners who were never expected to experience freedom again. When Montgomery started serving his time at Angola it was a violent place, where attacks on inmates and guards were commonplace. But Louisiana has not done away with the life without parole sentence for juveniles, and advocates at the LCCR say just as many children are being sentenced to life without parole in the years after the Supreme Court's pivotal 2012 ruling as after it - usually children of color. In Louisiana, about 96 out of roughly 300 former juvenile lifers incarcerated at the time of the Montgomery decision have been freed, according to data compiled by the Parole Project and the Louisiana Center for Children's Rights, which represents kids going through the justice system. In another six states, the sentence still exists but no juveniles are serving life without parole.
Twenty-five states and the District of Columbia have completely banned the use of life without parole for juveniles offenders - compared to five states in 2012. Juvenile offenders, often portrayed as irredeemable “super-predators,” were no exception.īut recent Supreme Court rulings have begun to chip away at these lifetime juvenile sentences as the country has begun to rethink “tough-on-crime” approaches.Īdvocates also point to the sweeping changes that have happened in the near-decade since Miller was decided. When Montgomery went to prison, and for decades afterward, the “lock-'em-up-and-throw-away-the-key” attitude dominated law enforcement and society - especially in Louisiana where the incarceration rate has consistently been the highest in the country. The case was retried, Montgomery convicted again but this time sentenced to life in prison.
He was initially sentenced to death but the state's Supreme Court threw out his conviction in 1966, saying he didn't get a fair trial. Montgomery was arrested after fatally shooting Charles Hurt, an East Baton Rouge sheriff’s deputy, who caught him skipping school. What’s the value in making him spend a couple more years there? I, for one, cannot see it,” said Andrew Hundley who runs the Louisiana Parole Project that will provide a home and support for Montgomery should he be released. “The state has gotten about fifty-eight years of Henry Montgomery’s life. 17, 2021, when a Louisiana parole board votes for the third time whether to grant 75-year-old Henry Montgomery parole. But so far the man whose case has been central to this change is still behind bars nearly six decades after his 1963 arrest. That's due to Supreme Court decisions ruling that young people are capable of change and should be given a second chance. 13, 2015, as the justices began to discuss sentences for young prison 'lifers.' In recent years, hundreds of people once destined to spend the rest of their lives in prison after being convicted of crimes as juveniles have gone free. 13, 2015, file photo, people line up outside of the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. (John Boss/The Advocate via AP, File) John Boss/AP Show More Show Less 2 of3 FILE - In this Oct. Montgomery's supporters say he's fully reformed and deserves to be freed. 17, 2021, a Louisiana parole board votes for the third time whether to grant Montgomery parole.
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1 of3 FILE - In this February 1964 photo, Henry Montgomery, flanked by two deputies, awaits the verdict in his trial for the murder of Deputy Sheriff Charles H.
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